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A remarkable site for temporary ponds
The Tour du Valat Foundation is the owner of a 2560 ha estate made up of natural and agricultural lands, grazed by some 450 Camargue cattle and 80 Camargue horses. The natural zones form a mosaic of the emblematic and now rare habitats of the fluviolacustrine Camargue, the area at the interface between riverine and maritime influences.
These relatively non-saline habitats were largely destroyed in the past for the development of agriculture. The result is a natural heritage of exceptional value, adapted to the particular conditions of the area. Since July 2008, 1845 ha of the Estate (i.e., 72% of its total surface area) have been granted the protection status Réserve naturelle régionale or Regional Natural Reserve (RNR).
Of the many natural habitats that make up the site, the temporary ponds are among the most remarkable. Some of them (the least saline) are examples of a habitat of priority community interest under the European Habitats Directive, which are in sharp decline around the Mediterranean basin, Mediterranean Temporary Ponds (MTP)1. Such ponds cover a total surface area of 18.3 ha on the Tour du Valat Estate, i.e. 65% of all the MTPs in the Camargue.
In all, there are 65 ponds of various kinds on the Estate covering a total surface area of about 60 ha (their size is highly variable in function of water level). They vary considerably in size, shape, depth, level of isolation, and salinity, with consequent influences on the plant and animal communities that live in and around them.
In particular, there is a wide diversity of plant species, certain of which are highly threatened. Among the eleven protected species (four at national level, and seven at regional level) found in the Tour du Valat RNR, two are of major importance for conservation:
The Starfruit or Water star (Damasonium polyspermum) is an attractive little white-flowered annual plant, a member of the Alismataceae family. This Western Mediterranean endemic is typical of Mediterranean temporary ponds. Its world conservation status is listed as Vulnerable by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and it is protected by ministerial decree in France, where it is present at some ten sites, including the Tour du Valat. In the RNR, it is found, sometimes in populations of several thousands, in six oligosaline (very slightly salty) ponds with a sunny exposition and scattered emergent vegetation; it emerges only when flooding conditions are favourable, i.e. when there is enough water in early spring.
Riella helicophylla is a small aquatic liverwort just a few centimetres in height. Endemic to the Mediterranean basin, it is listed in Annex II of the Habitats Directive, and is currently being added to the list of French protected species. It is fond of distinctly saline, shallow, clear, temporary flood water, with limited plant cover. It was only recently discovered at the Tour du Valat (March 2012) in saline borrow pits and some low depressions in the flooded sansouïres bordering the Baisse Salée and the Saline ponds, covering at least 1.2 ha. Until then, it had only been found at one (former) site in the Hérault Department, and at Salin du Caban, east of
In terms of animals, the temporary ponds are also of primordial interest, for branchiopod crustaceans, odonates (dragonflies and damselflies), and amphibians. In wet springs, they literally teem with animals of kinds: from Triops cancriformis, a real living fossil, to the impressive tadpoles of the Common parsley frog or the Mediterranean/stripeless tree frog, and larvae of Zygoptera (damselflies, close relatives of the dragonflies). In this category, one of the commonest species in the Tour du Valat ponds, although highly threatened in France, is the Dark emerald damselfly or Dark spreadwing (Lestes macrostigma). This attractive damselfly, listed as Vulnerable in Europe by the IUCN, is only found in a few sites in France, along the Atlantic coast, in Corsica, and in the Camargue.
To conserve this natural heritage, it is necessary to maintain the natural hydrological regime of these ponds, characterised by their isolation and long completely parched periods in the summer. Their appearance thus varies immensely in function of precipitation level, ranging from bare cracked soil in late summer to vast flooded areas in wet springs, verdant and teeming with life.
*Habitat type 3170 in the Habitats Directive n° 3170.
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Bigot L. 1999 Sur la réponse de Damasonium polyspermum Cosson (Alismataceae) aux variations des conditions édaphoclimatiques, d'après un suivi de 43 ans (1954-1996) dans une mare temporaire de la Tour-du- Valat (Camargue, Bouches-du-Rhône, France). Bull Soc Linn Provence 50 : 83-88 (in French)
That's my video work, Future City (vimeo.com/tizzycanucci/futurecity), showing just inside the front door. First ever rl exhibition I've had art in, rather than being the administrator for.
The ‘Interface’ exhibition organised by neo:artists is at neogallery23, in the Market Place Shopping Centre in Bolton. It runs until 20th May 2018, open Thursday-Sunday from 11am-5pm. Admission is free and the space is fully accessible.
This is part 1 of a closer look at the Rexroth interface to show the menus and function selections. I took a million pictures to get good images, which was a trouble at first with reflections during the day, but then I tried in darkness. The green screen and orange buttons look sweet ey! In the top left is your main menu which is pretty self explanatory. On the right is load mode where you can toggle between continuous pack or auto pack, which initiates 3 full blade cycles, otherwise you have the full manual forward and reverse operation. A button which Superior Pak no longer does have, but should on their newest models, is for the engine revs where you can completely deactivate them to be quiet or throttle up to boost the hydraulics. Also worth mentioning is the table of values on the right for the lift, beam and packer. Those numbers are milliampere units which measure electrical signal, so move the joystick and the values will increase dependent on proportional control. On the bottom left is unload mode and all shown there is also pretty obvious, only thing to explain is that list on the right refers to the function solenoids, with the empty squares lighting up once the body/door is operated. The last screen on the bottom is your set/resets screen which is also very obvious with bin count reset and load limit mode to reduce pack pressure for recycling, but it can only be changed with a password. Now go to part 2 for the rest.
Risque o "s" da sua crise! ;)
CRISE: Momento crítico ou decisivo.
CRIAR: Dar existência, princípio, Deus o céu e a terra, dar origem, formar, gerar, imaginar, inventar, produzir, suscitar, estabelecer, fundar, instituir, começar, adquirir, fazer, gloriosa, amamentar, alimentar, sustentar, sacrifício, filhos, cultivar, educar, trabalho, prática, virtude, crescer, desenvolver-se, nascer, exercer, atividade, atuar, primeira vez, modo, brilho, desempenho, importante.
CRIE: Reinventar, se reinventar, necessidade, mudar, conhecimento, holístico, intuição, oportunidade, criatividade, capacidade, superar, crescer, ação, acreditar, futuro, rumo, chance, fazer, transformar, empreender, pilotar, comunicar, sonhar, determinar, agir, promover, voar, objetivo, positivo, visão, missão, paixão, amar.
O meu negócio é criar! ;)
Felipe Luiz Fatarelli
Criativo de Arte, Design e Ilustração.
"Quem não se comunica se trumbica" - José Abelardo Barbosa de Medeiros, ou simplesmente Chacrinha.
Cultural Centre Forum Groningen, The Netherlands
• Architects: NL Architects
• Area : 17000 m²
• Year : 2019
• Interior Design : NL Architects i.c.w.: deMunnik-deJong-Steinhauser, Prast&Hooft, Tank, Northern Light,
• Acoustics : Peutz
• Structural Engineer : ABT
Forum Groningen is a new multifunctional building in the center of Groningen in the Netherlands, a cultural ‘department store’ filled with books and images, that offers exhibition spaces, movie halls, assembly rooms, restaurants. The Forum aspires to become a platform for interaction and debate, a ‘living room’ for the city. Forum Groningen is a new type of public space where the traditional borders between these institutes will dissolve. Information will be presented thematically in a way that transcends the different media. The building is designed as single clear volume to express the desire for synergy, to strengthen the shared ambition to combine different facilities into one new compound. A series of careful cuts nails the building on its site and generates a multitude of different appearances.
Forum Groningen features an exceptional central space, an innovative atrium that with its horizontal ‘tentacles’ forms the pumping heart of the venue. The void works as a spatial interface that binds all functions, movie theatre, book collection, expo, auditorium, and as such hopes to catalyze the exchange of knowledge and ideas. A series of stacked ‘squares’ emerges that can be experienced as the continuation of the network of open spaces in the city of Groningen. The vertical squares are publicly accessible and provide entry to the ticketable activities. The specific layout offers continuously changing perspectives on the surrounding city and culminates in the roof terrace, a viewing platform and outdoor theatre. Forum Groningen has been engineered “to accommodate finding not searching”. The design stimulates exploration. It hopes to catalyze the desire to wander, to ‘browse’ endlessly through a staggering interior landscape.
PACIFIC OCEAN (Apr. 18, 2021) – Sailors observe flight operations aboard Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy’s (T-AH 19) flight deck Apr. 18. Mercy is underway off the coast of Southern California completing Dynamic Interface Testing, where the ship’s aviation facilities will be evaluated for compatibility with the V-22 Osprey and MH-60 Seahawk, and establish launch and recovery windows in adverse weather conditions. Mercy recently returned to its homeport in San Diego from a regular overhaul in Portland, Ore., where improvements were made to its flight deck to support multiple aircraft platforms. Mercy must be in a five-day-activation status in order to support missions over the horizon, and be ready, reliable and resilient to support mission commanders. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jake Greenberg)
This is a short demo of some user interface concept work I've been developing recently. The interface is entirely built with HTML, and then progressively enhanced using jQuery. The slider controls use jQuery UI's Slider package, and Filament Group's enhanced Accessible Slider extension.
Command Line Interface - CLI
Type: Text
Static, Disconnected, High-Low, Directed, Recall
Graphical User Interface - GUI
Type: Graphics
Responsive, Indirect, DBL Medium, Exploratory, Recognition
Natural User Interface - NUI
Type: Objects
Evocative, Unmediated, Fast Few, Contextual, Intuition
Hardest thing always is to make a housing... This is an interface switching the keyer and PTT with RTS/DTR on the serial port and couples the audio in and out. All fully insulated with relais or transformers. Cost: $ 0.00 as I had all this stuff in the junk box.
designed some toolbar icons for iDMG, it's an experiment on the icon style for HUD.
And it's also a interface mod for it's inspector.
iDMG 2.35 is now available for download here with all these icons you see, however the interface mod seems hard to implement.
This latest version included one great feature is that you can custom background image, seems there's no other free dmg app can do that yet. Thanks Patrick Chamelo for that nice app.
And, no, I am not the one who made the app icon.
Google Video is increasingly cluttered. Check out the viral links in the blue box ('Email - Blog - Post to MySpace') - do Google not test their interfaces at a range of font sizes?
The interface does complement the video though:
クルクル まわまわる
メグルかーそる メグルいんが
くルくリッくル・・・
TwiRl tWirL ArouNd Twirl aRound
CurSor that coMes Round.
CausE and effeCt that coMes Round.
big picture here if you're too lazy to click "all sizes"
www.flickr.com/photos/evablue/4044322285/sizes/o/
seems the new @blipfm interface is a little confusing because so many new features have been added. i've been playing with the beta so the switchover for me was seamless. i like the new version because they've added so much usability and features i like as a blipper.
so here's the stuff i found. it might help you figure out where all the old stuff went and what the new stuff is.
or you can see what the official blip blog says are the new features. i've highlighted their comments and pointed to the interface here:
One of my bizarre photo interests are the variety of user interfaces presented in hotel showers. Here at the Inn at Saratogo (near San Jose), just in case people are nor intuitively familiar with world wide cultural references of "how water on left", they provide strong clues using the kinds of stickers used to put address numbers on your house.
Worse, the knobs rotating is i different directions; while for symmetry it might be clever, to get more hot, you have to rotate the knob left and to get more cold, you rotate right.
it took a good 8 minutes of wasting water to figure out this interface.
The media consumption experience is poised to transform, and fast. Technologies that have been tinkered with for years, ranging from virtual and augmented reality to sensors and robotics, are finally on the tipping point of mass commercialization. As the physical and digital worlds converge, how will these technologies shape how people interact with digital media?
On November 18, 2014, NYC Media Lab and Razorfish hosted the second occasion of Future Interfaces, an evening "science fair" on the future of human-computer interaction and digital media. More than 300 guests came to go hands-on with 30 demos from startups and universities to see what's on the verge of commercialization, what’s still in the lab, and what advances will change the nature of media and communications in the future.
To learn more about the event and to see a full list of participating demos, visit www.nycmedialab.org/events/future-interfaces/
How to change network interface names permanently in Linux
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A snapshot of the two main views we currently use to monitor flagging on Metafilter. 99% of the time we're interested in where the flags are piling up, not who is doing the flagging.
The top bit is what we see in the upper right corner of the main admin page on mefi; it lists flags sorted by volume and then by date for equally-flagged items. One recent change pb has made for us is the addition of subsite filters (see "all | ask | mefi | other") to make it simpler to keep an eye on major subsites independently if there's a lot of flagging activity on one that's obscuring lower-volume but still important flags on another.
We also use that "good spots" bit to keep an eye on "flagged as fantastic" stuff, since that flag carries a very different payload than most of the "there's a problem" choices. We will often notice sidebar-worthy comments because they show up here.
Down below is the inline flag info, something we've had for maybe a year now; it just lists flag count on individual items, which can be helpful for us when we're trying to figure out what's going on within a given thread. It used to be that we'd have to navigate comment-by-comment from the admin flag queue above, which worked but was tedious. This way, if a dozen things ended up flagged in a thread, we can tell what they are at a glance.
The blue pop-up is what we get if we hover over the "x times" link on the inline flag message. We don't need to use this much, but it's handy for the now-and-then occasion where we're not sure *why* a comment was flagged, as well as for the blue-moon situation where *who* flagged might help explain what's going on in a specific circumstance.
Other details not pictured here:
- Hovering over an item in the admin flag queue provides an abbreviated tooltip of the start of the comment or post flagged, which can help with quickly orienting or re-orienting us to what still needs attention before we even click through.
- There's a summary of flagging behavior in and on a thread at the top of each thread, to go with the per-comment inline flagging info. It tells us how many flags a post has gotten, as well as how many distinct comments have been flagged and how many total comment flags have accrued. We mirror the same information on the front page below every post. It's useful for telling at a glance if something looks like trouble without having to go to the admin interface first, which can help us notice things quicker if we're just casually browsing the site at the time.